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Heart and Soul nebula (Samyang 135), Lee
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Heart and Soul nebula (Samyang 135)

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Heart and Soul nebula (Samyang 135)

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By coincidence, it's another Heart and Soul image!  

This image started out as just capturing some Ha to look over until another object had risen high enough.  I've been chipping away at it ever since as small breaks in clouds allowed.  The Samyang has 49mm stop down rings on the front to bring it down to about F2.8 - the stars are still tricky but much improved over F2 (with the small pixels of the 183MM).

I had a lot of Ha data but was having some issues pulling something together that I really liked.  I decided to review an old link I'd saved discussing dynamic narrowband combinations - here.

I've tried it a few times before with Ha and OIII data but never settled on it.  This time, with some careful saturation and Ha Luminance I got a palette I really liked.  Unorthodox perhaps but I'm OK with that.

I've added a starless version that really shows some good depth, plus some 183MM full resolution crops of the strong signal areas.  These crops once again show what the Samyang 135mm is capable of with the 183MM.

This was captured with an ASIAIR Pro, calibrated and stacked in APP then processed in PixInsight.

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Description: Starless version

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Description: Crop of the Heart nebula at the 183MM full resolution

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Description: Crop of the Soul nebula at the 183MM full resolution.

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Heart and Soul nebula (Samyang 135), Lee